EVERY TIME I DIE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Post-Boredom (Instrumental)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 19-21 and 23, and 13 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 175 BPM
POST-BOREDOM (INSTRUMENTAL) · BAR 83

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 44 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 131 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 131, 153 and 175 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Post-Boredom (Instrumental) use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 175 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 16-17, 19-21, 23 and 33, and 12 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 17 times over the song.

Is the beat in Post-Boredom (Instrumental) hard?

34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED